Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then maybe Marie and me could even get married and I could sleep in her bed , and we could be all married and that . |
| 2 | When he was younger he 'd write songs about a laughing gnome , or a song about a laughing policeman , and I think it was a great outlet for David because he could almost blow his character out of all proportion and be able to pretend whatever he wanted to pretend , which is what actors and pop stars do . |
| 3 | As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces under Marcos , Ramos had led a military mutiny in support of Aquino , and it was this which had finally convinced Marcos that he could no longer continue to cling to office . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , World Cup hero Alan Ball has been such a big hit with Graham Taylor that he could soon be named as England 's permanent coach . |
| 5 | In early 1947 the British , financially drained , and facing complicated imperial problems in India and Palestine , told Washington that they could no longer provide their traditional assistance to the Greek and Turkish governments . |
| 6 | Ask Jacob Manor about the land that belonged to Mrs Zamzam 's husband in the village of Um Al-Farajh and he could immediately explain how it came into the hands of the development authority and was then leased to the village of Ben Ami . |
| 7 | WOLVES fancy Blackpool forward David Eyres and they could also get a call from Chelsea , who may fancy Mike Stowell to end their search for a goalkeeper . |
| 8 | Sit behind the wheel of the Calibra and it could easily be mistaken for a Cavalier GSi . |
| 9 | We only had two days on Fregate and I could easily have spent at least a week . |
| 10 | Mind you , Lennie and I could usually get them round . |
| 11 | Indeed , there wo n't be much alteration from the side which triumphed so convincingly in Lithuania and Latvia although we could perhaps see the return of Nottingham Forest winger Kingsley Black at some stage . |
| 12 | But in the end I saw that Frejji was right — that Mala and I could probably stay unrecognized in the midst of a typical Uulaan carnival . |
| 13 | Jennifer could you ask Mr if he could just pop in and see me a minute . |
| 14 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 15 | He wound up the interview and was rising to say goodbye when Catherine , sounding shy , asked Peter Yeo if she could possibly use their ladies ' room . |
| 16 | Sometimes , when she looked at her like that , it seemed to Emmie that she could easily forget what Gran was like when she was well — how she had looked , sitting in the kitchen all last winter , rocking in her old chair and telling them stories and teaching Oliver games to play with her darning eggs . |
| 17 | He suggested once to Blanche that she could perhaps feel such chill draughts blowing from the past when others could not . |
| 18 | Carrie squeezed Seb until he could hardly breathe . |
| 19 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 20 | The appointment , as Lovat advised , ‘ would give him the rank of Lieut. & you could easily afterwards get him out of our companys to a marching reg[imen]t either as lieut[enant] or captain ’ . |
| 21 | There would be far more activities for Jennifer than we could ever hope to provide for her here . ’ |
| 22 | The hostility of United directors to his backers persuaded Mr Knighton that he could never hope to reconcile them to his ownership of the club . |
| 23 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 24 | He had a classic Rickenbacker and you could really hear what he was playing . |
| 25 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 26 | The Dark Power had lost for ever his eternal brightness , but his strength and intelligence were derived from God and he could still disguise himself as Lucifer the angel of light . |
| 27 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 28 | It was reported in October 1989 that the Justice Department had advised the FBI that it could legally arrest fugitives in foreign countries without the consent of those countries and whether or not those arrested were US citizens . |
| 29 | ‘ My legs were in a right mess from blows which I took from Tony Cordle and I could hardly bowl for all the strapping when we took the field , ’ grinned Robinson . |
| 30 | The Geordie who moved from Newcastle to Nottingham so he could regularly fish the Trent is rated by Frank Barlow as one of the country 's best float anglers — and accolades do n't come much higher than that ! |